Ameer to be facilitated

Ace director Ameer, known as one of the Trend Setters in Tamil, will be felicitated by Tamil Film journalists on Monday for bagging the special award for his film Paruthi Veeran in Berlinale, a month ago. The film was honoured with a special award under Asian category for best direction and a special mention of the juries in 58th Berlin International film festival.

To felicitate Ameer for achieving the high for the first time in Tamil Cinema History, the Cinema Press Club a forum of film journalists in Tamil, has planned to organize a grand function. The function will be held at Film Chamber Theatre on Monday evening 6 pm.

It may be recalled that Paruthi Veeran was also screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last year. His earlier film 'Ram' too got an international honor by getting screened in Cyprus International Film Festival in 2006.

Ameer has, meanwhile, postponed his film featuring Jayam Ravi. He will start the project with Vikram after finishing his current project 'Yogi', in which he plays the lead role.